Social services – MassHealth – Reimbursement

Where seven Massachusetts hospitals and one managed health care organization that disproportionately provide medical care to the poor allege that the Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services has violated her obligation to reimburse them for the reasonable costs incurred in providing medical services to MassHealth enrollees, a judge in the Superior Court committed no error by granting the Secretary's motion for judgment on the pleadings in one case and the Secretary's motion to dismiss in the other, as the plaintiffs could not prevail even if their allegations were true.